Season 11 of Spring Baking Championship is fiercer than ever before: The addition of one more competitor makes for a baker’s dozen of 13 impressive chefs vying for baking bragging rights. Host Jesse Palmer is back to shepherd the crew of talented chefs through the gauntlet of sweet creation challenges in the Little Shop of Spring Magic — where anything is possible. A trio of confection masters is on set to lend their palates, advice and judgment: Duff Goldman (Duff: Ace of Taste), Kardea Brown (Delicious Miss Brown) and Nancy Fuller (Farmhouse Rules). Ahead, meet the amazing bakers battling for a $25,000 grand prize and the title of Spring Baking Champion.

Also known as Chef Jaye, the Miami-born pastry aficionado specializes in “creating cakes, cupcakes and dessert tables for life-defining moments” in her home base of Atlanta. She gravitates toward incorporating the tropical flavors of her South Florida upbringing into her recipes and is ready to bring her A game to the championship. “If I’m going to be successful in this competition, I am going to have to learn to think on my feet, so I’m moving,” she says.

The mom, pastry chef and chocolatier says, “Chocolate is definitely my jam.” Her chocolate business in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, focuses on handcrafted sweets like bonbons, bars and confections.

“Even though I was not classically trained, my training comes from life — I went to the university of grandpa and YouTube,” jokes Kareem of Brooklyn, New York. “My grandfather allowed me to be anything and everything I wanted to be. He prepared me for today.”